Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize - Winners and Nominees

Winners and Nominees

• 1986 Joe Rosenblatt, Poetry Hotel

• 1987 Diana Hartog, Candy from Strangers
  • John Newlove, The Night the Dog Smiled
  • Tom Wayman, The Face of Jack Munro

• 1988 Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
  • Norm Sibum, Eight Poems
  • Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash

• 1989 Charles Lillard, Circling North
  • Doug Beardsley, Dancing Star
  • bill bissett, what we have

• 1990 Victoria Walker, Suitcase
  • Marlene Cookshaw, The Whole Elephant
  • Maureen McCarthy, The Girls in the Last Seat Waving

• 1991 Jeff Derkson, Down There
  • bill bissett, Hard 2 beleev
  • Phyllis Webb, Hanging Fire

• 1992 Barry McKinnon, Pulplog
  • John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis
  • Michael Turner, Company Town

• 1993 bill bissett, Inkorrect Thoughts
  • Kirsten Emmott, How Do You Feel?
  • Diana Hartog, Polite to Bees: A Bestiary

• 1994 Gregory Scofield, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
  • Brian Brett, Poems New and Selected
  • Howard White, Ghost in the Gears

• 1995 Linda Rogers, Hard Candy
  • Aaron Bushowsky, Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon
  • Adeena Karasick, Mêmewars

• 1996 Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce
  • Kate Braid, To this Cedar Fountain
  • Robin Skelton, The Edge of Time

• 1997 Margo Button, The Unhinging of Wings
  • Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
  • Joyce Nelson, Seeing in the Dark

• 1998 Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
  • Lyle Neff, Ivanhoe Station
  • Linda Rogers, Heaven Cake

• 1999 David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last
  • Patrick Friesen, St. Mary at Main
  • Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

• 2000 Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go
  • Wayde Compton, 49th Parallel Psalm
  • Susan Musgrave, Things That Keep and Do Not Change
  • D.C. Reid, Love and Other Things That Hurt
  • Tom Wayman, The Colours of the Forest

• 2001 Don McKay, Another Gravity
  • George Bowering, His Life
  • Patrick Lane, The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
  • John Pass, Water Stair
  • Sue Wheeler, Slow-Moving Target

• 2002 Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine
  • Stephen Guppy, Understanding Heaven
  • Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours
  • Daphne Marlatt, This Tremor Love Is
  • Catherine Owen, The Wrecks of Eden

• 2003 bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes / text bites
  • Colin Browne, Ground Water
  • Marlene Cookshaw, Shameless
  • Patrick Friesen, The Breath You Take from the Lord
  • Tom Wayman, My Father's Cup

• 2004 Philip Kevin Paul, Taking the Names Down from the Hill
  • Marilyn Bowering, The Alchemy of Happiness
  • Robert Bringhurst, Ursa Major
  • Denise Cammiade, The Creature I Am
  • Russell Thornton, House Built of Rain

• 2005 Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing
  • Aislinn Hunter, The Possible Past
  • Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart
  • Patrick Lane, Go Leaving
  • D.C. Reid, The Hunger

• 2006 Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking
  • Stephen Collis, Anarchive
  • Jordan Scott, Silt
  • George Sipos, Anything But the Moon
  • Jan Zwicky, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

• 2007 Don McKay, Strike / Slip
  • Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon
  • Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
  • Sharon Thesen, The Good Bacteria
  • Terence Young, Moving Day

• 2008 Rita Wong, Forage
  • George McWhirter, The Incorrection
  • Christopher Patton, Ox
  • Arleen Pare, Paper Trail
  • Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography

• 2009 Daphne Marlatt, The Given
  • Elise Partridge, Chameleon Hours
  • Nilofar Shidmehr, Shirin and Salt Man
  • George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem
  • Karen Hofmann, Water Strider

• 2010 Fred Wah, Is a Door
  • Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies
  • David Zieroth, The Fly in Autum
  • Miranda Pearson, Harbour
  • Gillian Jerome, Red Nes

• 2011 Stephen Collis, On the Material
  • Ken Belford, Decompositions
  • Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours
  • George Bowering, My Darling Nellie Grey
  • Eve Joseph, The Secret Signature of Things

• 2012 John Pass, Crawlspace
  • Patrick Lane, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
  • Susan McCaslin, Demeter Goes Skydiving
  • Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages
  • Sharon Thesen, Oyama Pink Shale